Marijuana Smell Science: Sploofs Vs. Joints, Bongs, Pipes and Vapes

Fact: hotel “cleaning” fees for pot smoking are more expensive ($250) in San Francisco than a ticket for smoking in public ($100). Tens of thousands of medical cannabis users live in places – dormitories, apartment complexes – where a little marijuana smoke just isn’t acceptable.

The stealth solution: use a vaporizer at least one room away from the exit, and exhale into a paper towel roll stuffed with some good air filters. That tip is based on a new study commissioned by AirFilters.com. Researchers smoked weed through a joint, a bong, a pipe and a vaporizer in the different rooms of an apartment and tested ambient smoke levels using a highly sensitive particle counter. The results: a vaporizer creates the least amount of smoke, while a joint, a bong or a pipe all fog up the place. “Vaporizers were significantly lower than the rest,” researchers found.

Bottom line: if you use a vaporizer and MERV 13 sploof in your apartment, no one should be the wiser, said Kristi Tynski, study coordinator.

“Definitely. Vaping in an apartment seems pretty safe in terms of the smell not escaping, especially if you are at last one room away from the front door.”

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